{"id":204514,"date":"2019-02-28T20:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=204514"},"modified":"2019-02-28T20:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:23:32","slug":"duterte-wants-gentlemans-agreement-with-misuari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/28\/duterte-wants-gentlemans-agreement-with-misuari\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte wants gentleman\u2019s agreement with Misuari"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_204142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204142\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CDO3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204142\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CDO3-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CDO3-2.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CDO3-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CDO3-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CDO3-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte discusses matters with Moro National Liberation Front Founding Chairman Nur Misuari during their meeting at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace on February 25, 2019. ROBINSON NI\u00d1AL JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte wants a gentleman\u2019s agreement with Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Medialdea made this clarification after Duterte earlier expressed interest in crafting a new deal for the MNLF but did not give further details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Sabi ni Nur<\/em>\u00a0(Nur said), he is willing to talk and he has waited this long for me to make a decisive decision when he comes back.\u00a0<em>Sabi ko<\/em>\u00a0(I said), \u2018Time for us to craft a new deal for the MNLF of Misuari,\u2019\u201d Duterte said during the 2019 general assembly of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines at the Manila Hotel on February 26.<\/p>\n<p>Medialdea clarified that it is not a formal agreement that Duterte seeks but a gentleman\u2019s agreement of mutual respect.<\/p>\n<p>He further said Misuari did not ask for any condition during their meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hindi nga<\/em>\u00a0agreement,\u00a0<em>parang<\/em>\u00a0it\u2019s more of gentleman\u2019s.\u00a0<em>Usap na lang tayo dito. Respetuhin yung kanila<\/em>\u00a0(It\u2019s not an agreement, it\u2019s more of a gentleman\u2019s agreement. Let\u2019s talk here. They respect each other),\u201d Medialdea told reporters in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Malaca\u00f1ang confirmed that Duterte expressed admiration for Misuari\u2019s patience in peace negotiations during their meeting at Malaca\u00f1an Palace on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President told the chairman that he admired his patience and he apologized for not having implemented or enforced whatever agreements that they had previously with respect, I think, to federalism or something,&#8221; Presidential Spokesperson Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that Duterte and Misuari met since the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), which establishes a new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte wants a gentleman\u2019s agreement with Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari, Executive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":204142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}